Modernism and the Celtic revival

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Label

Modernism and the Celtic revival

Statement of responsibility

Gregory Castle

Creator

• Castle, Gregory

Subject

• English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• English literature -- Celtic influences
• English literature -- Irish authors | History and criticism
• Ireland -- Civilization -- 19th century
• Celts in literature
• Ireland -- In literature
• Literature and anthropology -- Ireland
• Modernism (Literature) -- Ireland
• Mythology, Celtic, in literature
• Ireland -- Civilization -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

"In Modernism and the Celtic Revival, Gregory Castle, examines the impact of anthropology on the work of Irish Revivalists such as W. B. Yeats, John M. Synge, and James Joyce. Castle argues that anthropology enabled Irish Revivalists to confront and combat British imperialism, even as these Irish writers remained ambivalently dependent on the cultural and political discourses they sought to undermine. Castle shows how Irish modernists employed textual and rhetorical strategies first developed in anthropology to translate, reassemble, and edit oral and folk-cultural material. In doing so, he claims, they confronted and undermined inherited notions of identity which Ireland, often a site of ethnographic curiosity throughout the nineteenth century, had been subject to. Drawing on a wide range of post-colonial theory, this book should be of interest to scholars in Irish studies, post-colonial studies, and modernism."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

820.9/9417/0904

Index

index present

LC call number

PR8722.M6

LC item number

C37 2001

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography